If you ask Steve Boyer how he ended up in law enforcement, he’ll tell you about an incident he saw as a boy.
“There was a house fire down the street,” Boyer said. “Two little girls were burnt very badly. I remember watching the firemen and the police working so hard to help. A couple of days later I went over to look at the house and I thought ‘I’d like to know what to do in an emergency like that,’” Boyer said.

Whatever cultural moment the local moviegoing public may have shared at the sold-out premier of the controversial comedy "The Interview" at Bainbridge Cinemas Thursday night, the time has apparently come and gone.

Kitsap County Sheriff’s detectives are searching for a male suspect who reportedly robbed a homeowner earlier Dec. 5 and then fled on foot. The incident occurred around 10 a.m. at a residence in the 5400 block of NE Laura Loop, about a half mile from Suquamish Way on the Port Madison Indian Reservation.

The defense attorney for the 18-year-old who allegedly made threats of violent acts against Kingston High School has not approached the Prosecuting Attorney's Office to negotiate the case in the three months since the teen was booked into county jail. Matthew Allen Smiley was booked Sept. 5 after people warned that he had allegedly made threats to shoot a gun at the school. He remains in county jail on $2 million bail.

Kitsap County Sheriff’s detectives have identified a suspect believed to have been involved in the burglary of a North Kitsap residence on Dec. 5. Sheriff’s spokesman Deputy Scott Wilson said detectives — “through detailed investigative work” — identified the suspect as Hayden David Armstrong Nunes, 21.

The Kitsap County Department of Emergency Management activated the county’s Severe Weather Shelter Plan on Dec. 11. Both shelters will open Dec. 11 at 6 p.m. and remain open until Dec. 12 at 7 a.m. The shelters are at Bremerton Food Line, 1600 12th St., Bremerton; and North Kitsap Fire & Rescue, 26642 Miller Bay Road NE, Kingston. For information on getting to a shelter, call 211.

Family and friends are respectfully invited to attend the visitation on Dec. 12, 11 a.m. to noon, followed by the funeral service at noon at the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribal Center in Little Boston. Interment will take place at the Tribal Cemetery. A reception will follow. ​

Family and friends are respectfully invited to attend the visitation on Dec. 12, 11 a.m. to noon, followed by the funeral service at noon at the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribal Center in Little Boston. Interment will take place at the Tribal Cemetery. A reception will follow.​

Earl Hanson lived a full life: World War II veteran. Planner and estimator at Keyport. Skiing instructor. Past president of the Sons of Norway and the Poulsbo Historical Society. Official greeter at the Poulsbo First Lutheran Church’s annual Lutefisk Dinner. Host of countless visitors from Norway and Sapmi (the land of the Saami people). Husband of 61 years. Father, grandfather and great-grandfather. And yet, in his 91 years of life, one experience stood out to him in a unique way, having fed his early moral conscience and sense of social justice.

The 18-year-old who threatened to shoot a gun in Kingston High School pleaded guilty and was released from custody Dec. 12. Matthew Allen Smiley was sentenced to three months in the Kitsap County Corrections Center, the standard sentence. Because he received credit for time served and it was his first offense, Smiley was released after pleading guilty.